Social Security News

      Social Security has issued a newly amended section of its HALLEX Manual on Rules and Standards Governing The Conduct Of Representative...

     The dates that Social Security places on its outgoing mail are mostly fictitious. Most outgoing mail is printed and mailed from a centr...

      An addition to Social Security’s HALLEX manual : A. General Hearing office (HO) staff will initiate and conduct a prehearing case anal...

     About two and a half years ago Social Security changed its policies on voluntary remands, that is cases where the agency agrees that...

     From the summary of a change to Social Security's HALLEX manual : We clarified that an ALJ must obtain concurrence from the He...

     From material newly added to Social Security's HALLEX manual , which contains policy and procedure material for Administrative La...

    From Transmittal I-1-90 explaining a change to HALLEX §I-1-10: ... [E]xcept in unusual circumstances, the AC [Appeals Council] will...

     From HALLEX , the manual for Social Security's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) (and no, the name hasn't c...

     From HALLEX , the manual of Social Security's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR) whose name will be changed to O...

     Let's say you're an attorney and you have evidence that a particular Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) is prejudiced against a c...

     From an newly amended section of HALLEX , Social Security's manual for hearings and appeals: When determining disability, the ...

     Social Security just updated its HALLEX manual section pertaining to cases involving alleged "fraud or similar fault." Here...

     I've learned a few things about Social Security's re-adjudication of the disability claims of Eric Conn's former clients....

     I posted yesterday about the special rules that Social Security has cooked up to try to prevent Eric Conn's former clients from e...

     Social Security made up some special rules just for Eric Conn's former clients. The main point of the rules is to make sure the a...

     From a section added to Social Security's HALLEX manual last week: Before closing the hearing, the administrative law judge (A...

     I have no idea why they believe this to be consistent with their own recently adopted regulations but Social Security is now taking t...

     Timothy Gray has written a note for the Columbia Law Review on Manual Override?Accardi, Skidmore, And The Legal Effect Of The Social S...

     From HALLEX I-1-3-16 updated on August 30, 2013: Generally, when adjudicating a claim, staff and adjudicators may not rely on in...

From an update to Social Security's HALLEX Manual : HALLEX Sections I-2-5-42 Obtaining Medical Expert Opinion Through Interrogatories ...